The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person
The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person
The Beck Diet Solution is the Missing Ingredient in Weight Loss
Lose weight with confidence and keep it off for a lifetime!
Battle your sabotaging habits!
Resist tempting food - even if it’s right in front of you!
Confidently say, “No, thank you” to food pushers!
Put an end to emotional eating!
Confidently say, “No, thank you” to food pushers!
Conquer every excuse you’ve ever used to overeat, binge, or backslide!
Any sensible diet will help you lose weight, but the challenge for 90% of Americans is actually staying on the diet they choose. Enter Dr. Judith Beck and The Beck Diet Solution. Dr. Beck, one of the foremost authorities in the field of Cognitive Therapy, has created a six-week plan that will help people stick with their diet, lose weight with confidence, and keep weight off for a lifetime. This program is not only based on the author’s personal success and on her success with her many clients, but also on published research. It all starts with how you think. With other programs, you think about nothing but food: counting, weighing, and worst of all, food you can’t have. This way of thinking inevitably contributes to diet failure. The Beck Diet Solution is the only program that helps dieters use Cognitive Therapy methods–scientifically proven over 20 years–to forever change those treacherous thought patterns that lead to overeating, cheating, excuses, and other dieting downfalls.
Features
This breakthrough six-week plan assures success by helping you assess the advantages of weight loss, pick a sensible diet and exercise program, set a goal, line up support, and prepare your environment–all this before starting any diet. This unique approach is key to preventing the downfalls that so often lead to failure.
A new task is presented each day to build psychological skills to deal with the challenges of hunger and craving, overeating, alcohol, eating out, special occasions, vacations, stress, and much more. Healthy habits are established with to-do lists, reasons and ways to do the tasks, and how to deal with negative thoughts. One day a week is designated to “Take a Breather.”
Easy-to-use, flexible, and proven tools are found throughout the program, including daily goals; weekly planner pages; and motivational coping cards for handling time/energy hurdles, eating out, and other high-risk situations.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars WOW- Finally for the psychological side!!
For years, people have been suggesting to me that I have a Weight Loss Surgery. But for me, my problem is 100% in my head. My stomach and other body parts are literally innocent bystanders. Cutting out an organ or two still would not help me with eating and weight issues.
I’ve been searching for a book that deals with the psychological part of weight loss and this is it! This deals with so many psychological issues and I love the tools of ‘talking yourself down’ so to speak-and how to talk yourself out of those decisions that we all make that we end up regretting.
This isnt a diet book, its like a diet helper book on how to really succeed.
Highly recomended.
2 Stars Not bad, but not good
The Beck Diet touches on the surface of the core issue. All diets work - short term. Unfortunately emotions are the reason why 95% of people can’t sustain weight loss. Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Dr. Norton L. Williams found the only way to sustain weight loss is to change your habits…one at a time (also see Robert Mikkelsen’s book The Story of Big Belly Bob).
Funny how this research gets brushed under the carpet.
Below is some additional info:
Dr. Norton L. Williams, psychiatrist, said recently that modern man’s anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of “self-realization,” and that inner security can only be found “in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness and distinctiveness. Our currently held beliefs, whether good or bad, true or false, were formed without effort, with no sense of strain, and without the exercise of “will power.” Our habits, whether good or bad. were formed in the same way. It follows that we must employ the same process in forming new beliefs, or new habits, that is, in a relaxed condition. It has been amply demonstrated that attempting to use effort or will power to cure bad habits has an adverse rather than a beneficial effect.
Emile Coue` The little French pharmacist who astonished the world around 1920 with the results he obtained with “the power of suggestion,” insisted that effort was the one big reason most people failed to utilize their inner powers. “Your suggestions (ideal goals) must be made without effort if they are to be effective,” he said. Another famous Coue` saying was his “Law of Reversed Effort”: “When the will and the imagination are in conflict, the imagination invariably will win.”
http://www.durbinhypnosis.com/maltz.htm
5 Stars This approach works!
I lost 40 lbs over about 6 months and am now at my “ideal weight” (from size 14 to size 6) — something that I haven’t seen during my adult life (I’m turning 50 this year). The book revealed the simple truth that my problem was not really WHAT I ate or even WHY I ate, but HOW I ate, which of course links to the others but is something you can systematically control. Seemingly simple changes in behavior (do not eat standing up) had both huge direct benefits and also made me realize how much control I have over my own behavior. Interestingly, in addition to dealing PERMANENTLY with eating and exercise issues, I’ve figured out how to apply the Cognitive Behavior Therapy approach to other problems in my life, to good effect. Very powerful stuff. (Of note: I got the audiobook version, and I think that was helpful in really “implanting” the voice of reason into my head, plus I can get a “refresher” easily when I’m driving to work or even out to dinner!!)
5 Stars north shore mom reads
The book is everything I expected. Haven’t finished it yet but I think it’s good advice for everyone trying to stick to a food plan.
5 Stars All I can say is…. AMEN!
I didn’t buy this book, but I bought her AUDIO CD version. I listened to the whole book in 1 day (while I’m at work), then I listened to it again the next day, and this time sinking into my thinking and subconsious. I am amazed how it changed my way of thinking towards food, and helps me combat cravings. I am in my 3 weeks now and I lost 12 pounds with the help of running 5 days a week (originally 202.5 lbs when I started, I’m 5′8″). The audio book seems like Dr. Beck is talking to me directly. It is so convincing! My aim is to lose 40 or more pounds, and I will continue to strive to that goal. Whenever I have time, I just listen to it with my iPod, along with the other free Podcasts regarding WeightLoss topics (Podcasts can be downloaded in ITunes for free). I highly recommend this book/audiobook especially if you need motivation to start up.
5th week update:
I strayed from my exercise due to a work-related stress, but kept my diet. I lost another 2 pounds after week 3, now I’m 188 lbs (202 lbs originally). Still very happy, and will continue moving forward. I still listen to the audiobook at least 3 times a week. Very handy.
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